Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.