If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Today is a king in disguise.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.