Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.