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.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

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

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.