I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matter compared to what lies within us.

Great men are they who see that spirituality is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; … he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The characteristic of genuine heroism, is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

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