There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.