All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about it.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control. The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

Impossible is just an opinion.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.