“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.”

“I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.”

“There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.”

“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”