Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

We generally get the evil we expect.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.