It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
There is no one subsists by himself alone.
Brilliant people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.