Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.