Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

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!

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.