The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.