I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.