There is more day left to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?
Life is a narrow valley, and the roads run close together.
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
Pray to god, but row away from the rocks.
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
No bird has ever uttered note that was not in some first bird's throat; since eden's freshness and man's fall no rose has been original.
Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
Men exist for the sake of one another.
“I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.”
The time to hesitate is through.
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
I was going to grow up to walk in sleet in fields...
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
We only know of one duty, and that is to love.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
All night long I’ve had the most terrible impulse to do something.
Good individuals cannot exist without good education, and good education cannot exist without good laws.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
You cannot love a fellow creature fully until you love god.
Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit.