We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Sleep that masters all.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

Esteem to your higher self.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.