“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Love is the force that leaves you colorless.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

By yielding you may obtain victory.

We believe slowly when belief brings pain.

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.

He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.

Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.

Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.

Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.