“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.

There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Books must follow sciences and not sciences books.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.