Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.