He that has done nothing has known nothing.

Be not a slave of words.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.