Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.