To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

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

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

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

Do your work, but do your thing.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.