To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is read more

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

I have just about all I can take of myself.

I have just about all I can take of myself.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It read more

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Study to be what you wish to seem.

Study to be what you wish to seem.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.

Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.