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.

In any adversity gold can find friends.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

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.