Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

History, a distillation of rumour.