Be an opener of doors.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
The surest poison is time.
He is great who confers the most benefits.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.
Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
Blame is safer than praise.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Pity the man who has a character to support – it is worse than a large family – he is silent poor indeed.
Real practice has no purpose or direction, so it can include everything that comes.
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
