Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

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.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.