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.
Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
A great teacher makes hard things easy.
Every reform was once a private opinion.
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.