Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

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

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.