We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.