Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

Small things affects small minds.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

Never complain and never explain.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.