"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it."

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

"When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self."

"Man's greatest achievement is astonishment."

"It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself."

"Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them."

"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

"How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee."

"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."

"We will burn that bridge when we come to it."

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it."

"The deed is everything, the glory is naught."

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."

"Doubt can only be removed by action."

"Love can do much, but duty more."

"If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole."

"It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good."

"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

"Every offense is avenged on earth."

"What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes"

"What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."

"Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution."

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."

"Personality is everything in art and poetry."

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."

"We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects."

"Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see."

"They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."

"Enjoy what you can, endure what you must"

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

"Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"Doubt grows with knowledge."

"There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable."

"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."

"Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost."

"He who moves not forward, goes backward"

"Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color."

"The coward threatens when he is safe"

"The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing."

"Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!"

"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."

"Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued."

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

"In comradeship is danger countered best."

"Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea."

"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him."

"I love those who yearn for the impossible."

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."