Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.
There is no history; only biography.
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.