No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.