- All mankind love a lover.
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Shallow men believe in luck.
- We boil at different degrees.
- Every hero becomes a bore at last.
- Men are better than their theology.
- Thou art to me a delicious torment.
- To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
- Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.
- A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
- The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.
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