Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
Here’s the thing: the world is not going to issue you an engraved invitation to this life.
In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget…
I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities – a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
Do not assume anything. Clear your mind must be if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.
It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
