Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Writing is the painting of the voice.

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

The young feel tired at the end of an action the old at the beginning.

Self-respect will kip a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

History should be written as philosophy.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.