Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?