The words that keep you honest come from people who lived them first. Browse by the thinkers, poets, and rebels whose words are worth wearing.
1809–1892
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“I am a part of all that I have met;”
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1842–1914
Ambrose Bierce
“Alone, adj. In bad company.”
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1867–1931
Arnold Bennett
“Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
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1706–1790
Benjamin Franklin
“Well done is better than well said.”
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1816–1855
Charlotte Brontë
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
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1830–1894
Christina Rossetti
“Silence is more musical than any song.”
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1809–1849
Edgar Allan Poe
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
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1830–1886
Emily Dickinson
“Not knowing when the dawn will come— I open every door.”
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c. 50–135 AD
Epictetus
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
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1844–1900
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Become what you are.”
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1855–1930
George Edward Woodberry
“Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all.”
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1866–1946
H. G. Wells
“We were making the future, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making.”
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65–8 BC
Horace
“Nullius in verba.”
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1751–1836
James Madison
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
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1735–1826
John Adams
“Facts are stubborn things.”
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1817–1862
Henry David Thoreau
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
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1608–1674
John Milton
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”
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1828–1910
Leo Tolstoy
“Everybody thinks of changing humanity. Nobody thinks of changing himself.”
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1869–1948
Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
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121–180 AD
Marcus Aurelius
“No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
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1867–1934
Marie Curie
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
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1797–1851
Mary Shelley
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
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1875–1964
Muriel Strode
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”
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1854–1900
Oscar Wilde
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
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1792–1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon…”
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1875–1926
Rainer Maria Rilke
“I live my life in circles that grow wide and endlessly unroll.”
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1803–1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
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c. 4 BC–65 AD
Seneca
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
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1743–1826
Thomas Jefferson
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
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1858–1919
Theodore Roosevelt
“…who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly…”
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1757–1827
William Blake
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
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1842–1910
William James
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
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