The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.