Nothing external to you has any power over you.

A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.