Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.