Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

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.

There is no patriotic art.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.