"O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall."

"For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal."

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"

"A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence."

"Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."

"One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup."

"Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers."

"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

"Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water."