“When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.”

“Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.”

“A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.”

“When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.”

“Man is a universe within himself.”

“So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.”

“"Discretion" means, when it is said that something is to be done within the discretion of the authorities that that something is to be done according to the rules of reason and justice, not according to private opinion2; according to law and not humour. It is to be not arbitrary, vague, and fanciful, but legal and regular. And it must be exercised within the limit, to which an honest man, competent to the discharge of his office, ought to confine himself.”

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

“Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.”

“A learned man always has riches within himself.”
Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet.