“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”

“The human bird shall take his first flight,filling the words with amazement,all writings with his fame,and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence he sprang.”

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”

“He is a poor pupil who does not go beyond his master.”

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”