Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.