We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

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.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!