"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"If I am not I, who will be?"

"We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so."

"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

"It's not what you get, but what you give that determines your true worth."