You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.