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.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.