Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.