Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum. And here they will break out into their native music, and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns, and they mope and wallow like dogs!

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

No congress, nor mob, nor guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can avail, to cut out, burn, or destroy the offense of superiority in persons. The superiority in him is inferiority in me.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

We boil at different degrees.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

Shallow men believe in luck.