“Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.”
“Let us live today.”
“The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men.”
“Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.”
“He that is overcautious will accomplish little.”
“I am my own heaven and hell!”
“An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.”
“Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.”
“Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.”