"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."