It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

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

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?