To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.