Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.