“The only reward of virtue is virtue.”
“The most dangerous thing is illusion.”
“If we live truly, we shall see truly.”
“Wherever there is power there is age.”
“Men are what their mothers made them.”
“A strenuous soul hates cheap success.”
“Self-trust is the essence of heroism.”
“Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.”
“The only gift is a portion of thyself.”
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
“To fill the hour -- that is happiness.”
“If a man owns land, the land owns him.”
“Thought makes every thing fit for use.”
“The city is recruited from the country.”
“The less government we have the better.”
“The walking of Man is falling forwards.”
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”
“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”
“The ancestor of every action is thought.”
“Artists must be sacrificed to their art.”
“Everything intercepts us from ourselves.”
“There is no one who does not exaggerate!”
“There is no knowledge that is not power.”
“All necessary truth is its own evidence.”
“As soon as there is life there is danger.”
“The more experiments you make the better.”
“So far as a person thinks; they are free.”
“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”
“If you shoot at a king you must kill him.”
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”