To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
There is no evil without its compensation.
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.