Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.