Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.
It is up to us to cultivate our garden.
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Will is wish, and liberty is power.
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.