Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.