“There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.”

“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.”

“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.”

“Whatever limits us,we call Fate”

“The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.”