Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.