“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.