Superstition is the poetry of life.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks