It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.