Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.