Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

The sun shines today also.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.