“Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause, without obtaining it, than obtain, without deserving it; if it follow them, it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it. With inferior minds the reverse is observable.”

“The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the discernment of the public.”

“I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.”

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.”

“If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”

“If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.”

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”

“Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.”

“Emotions, or rather feelings, cannot be felt by an individual without the presence of the mind.”

“Spirit without mind, spirit without body is not the type of man, therefore a human spirituality must not belittle the mind, life or body or hold them of small account: it will rather hold them of high account, of immense importance, precisely because they are the conditions and instruments of the life of the spirit in man.”