Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.