The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage