It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.