Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

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

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.