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.

There is no patriotic art.

Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.