Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal