Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.