A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

Excellence is the new forever.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.