Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.
The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.
The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there's a great difference in the beholders.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
All great men come out of the middle classes.
The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.
Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.