In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.