"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust."
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."