“Resolve and thou art free.”

By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.