One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

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