It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

The happy do not believe in miracles.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.