Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.