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

Every beginning is cheerful.

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.