Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.