Self trust is the essence of heroism.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.