A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.