Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.