Knowledge is the antidote to fear

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.