Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.