The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell