Precaution is better than cure.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.
The unnatural, that too is natural.
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.