One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Success is the child of audacity.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.