Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

One spares old people just as one spares children.