One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.