A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.
Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.
The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.
A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
If a man has a strong faith, he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.