History after all is the true poetry.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.