Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Every second is of infinite value.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.