Self-command is the main elegance.

In imitation is a bit suicide.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.