“It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.”

“There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.”

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“The Beginning and end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the world that is in me, all things being grasped, related, recreated, molded, and reconstructed in a personal form and original manner.”

“The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.”