We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

The individual is always mistaken

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.