Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.