“Congratulate yourself if you have broken the monotony of a conventional age”

“Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!”

“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

“The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.”

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”

“Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.”