If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.