All quotes

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

A man must have the courage to be himself, and not the shadow or the echo of another.

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.

Surely it is hardly fitting that the ruler should be baser than the ruled.

My life has a limit, but my knowledge is without limit.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature,--opposition to it in his love of justice.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

The aim of moral discipline is to purify the heart from the rust of passion and resentment, till, like a clear mirror, it reflects the light of God.

The soul should take care of the body, just as a pilgrim on his way to Mecca takes care of his camel.

There is no royal road to the control of the brain.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Resolution is an act of courage in single instances, and if it becomes a characteristic trait, it is a habit of the mind.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Economic independence is a relative condition at best.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.

The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one.

The style shall be simple and familiar; but style is the image of character; and the habits of correct writing may produce, without labour or design, the appearance of art and study.

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.

Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail.

Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates.

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.