I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.