Nothing will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. Put some in!

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests