To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.