The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

You cannot see the mountain near.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

Be not the slave of your own past.