The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming of that which the wicked man does in actual life.
The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.
The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn’t know how to handle money is to give him some.
The soul of Man must quicken to creation.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The public use of man’s reason must always be free, and it alone can bring about enlightenment among men.[Der öffentliche Gebrauch seiner Vernunft muß jederzeit frei sein, und der allein kann Aufklärung unter Menschen zu Stande bringen.]
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
