Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

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.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.