1. “A traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.”
2. “A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”
3. “Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.”
4. “Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
5. “Idleness induces caprice.”
6. “Light is the symbol of truth.”
7. “The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.”
8. “Fate loves the fearless.”
9. “It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.”
10. “The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.”
11. “One learns more metaphysics from a single temprtation than from all the philosophers.”
12. “Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.”
13. “Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”
14. “Books are the bees which carry he quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
15. “The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.”
16. “Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
17. “No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”
18. “Silence is sorrow’s best food.”
19. “History is clarified experience.”
20. “Creativity is not finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”
21. “Talent is that which is in a man’s power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”
22. “Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.”
23. “A wise man travels to discover himself.”
24. “Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.”
25. “The better part of every man’s education is that which he gives himself.”
26. “Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.”
27. “Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
28. “The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
29. “Taste is the next gift to genius.”
30. “A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.”
