Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Leaders: Captains of industry.

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.