Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

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

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it