It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.
To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Anger is a prelude to courage.
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.