The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.