To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.