Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.