For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

There is one mind common to all individual men

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.