Method will teach you to win time.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.