“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

“Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.”

“A person hears only what they understand.”

“Duty is the demand of the hour.”

“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”

“one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.”

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

“How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?”