There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.