Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

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.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.