What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

All things are known to the soul.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.