"Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)"

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

"Dream lofty dreams, as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you one day shall be: your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

"You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time."

"A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks."

"'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it."

"Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed."

"Aina€?t no mountain that I cana€?t climb, baby"

"Come away,O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand"

"A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited."

"It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."

"Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel."