Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.