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

What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.