The threshold is the place of expectation.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.