The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.