“Only the educated are free.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.”
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
“Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.”