The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.