Every second is of infinite value.

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.