Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the bett…

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for bet…

'The goal of creation is-to please the creation, i.e. the Creator wants to fill us with the very best. And until a man receives all the very perfect and the ve…

'A man has been entrusted to receive the Goal of creation by correcting himself. This action is called: 'Which has been created by the Creator to be done.' Thi…

The first thing I remember about the world:is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides th…