Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

A man is known by the books he reads.

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.