He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Power is what they want, not candy—power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character. Now to no other man can its wisdom appear as it does to him, for every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else. Therefore just and wise men take umbrage at his act, until after some little time be past: then they see it to be in unison with their acts. All prudent men see that the action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will become too late.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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