There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.