Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
It's always too early to quit.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I can, therefore I am.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.