“He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.”

“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”

“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”

“He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.”

“The Great Filling Station Holdup”

“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command”

“He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”

“The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.”