If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.