If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages... In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.