If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

No institution will be better than the institutor.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.