 Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. |
| All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. |
| An unused life is an early death. |
| Live dangerously and you live right. |
| A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. |
| Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. |
| The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. |
| One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. |
| Sowing is not as difficult as reaping. |
| If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. |
| Age merely shows what children we remain. |
| To rule is easy, to govern difficult. |
| We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright. |
| The human mind will not be confined to any limits. |
| Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. |
| Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. |
| A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. |
| It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. |
| I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. |
| This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. |
