Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.