Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.