Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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

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.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.