Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms

A chain grows weaker with each new link.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.