The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

If I could find anything blacker than black, 

I'd use it.

This above all; 

to thine own self be true.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, 

and try to keep looking upward.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul 

but executed with clinical coolness.

I am, indeed, a king, 

because I know how to rule myself.

Sincerity is moral truth.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better 

when we were defenceless against tigers 

than they are today 

when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

I can't go on. 

I'll go on.

The care of human life and happiness, 

and not their destruction, 

is the first and only object of good government.

Music fathoms the sky.

For I have learned to look on nature, 

not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, 

but hearing oftentimes 

the still, sad music of humanity.

A wise man should so write 

(though in words understood by all men) 

that wise men only should be able to commend him.

I was cut off from the world. 

There was no one to confuse or torment me, 

and I was forced to become original.

In order to improve the mind, 

we ought less to learn, 

than to contemplate.