Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.