Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real