“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching, and doing as you say you would do.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.

I was born and reborn continuously, different people draw different me.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.