One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

If you can endure, if you can persevere, if you can work and not grow weary, if you're both obsessed and talented, well, you might have a shot.

Judgement comes from experience and great judgement comes from bad experience.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.

All I had was natural ability.

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.