Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.