Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.