Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

The food of hope is meditative action.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.