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.

We are wiser than we know.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.