A Talent Can Be Cultivated In Tranquility;

I Never Knew A More Presumptuous Person Than Myself. The Fact That I Say That Shows That What I Say Is True.

The Intelligent Man Finds Almost Everything Ridiculous, The Sensible Man Hardly Anything.

When We See The Many Grave-stones Which Have Fallen In, Which Have Been Defaced By The Footsteps Of The Congregation, Which Lie Buried Under The Ruins Of The Churches, That Have Themselves Crumbled Together Over Them; We May Fancy The Life After Death To Be As A Second Life, Into Which Man Enters In The Figure, Or The Picture Or The Inscription, And Lives Longer There Than When He Was Really Alive. But This Figure Also, This Second Existence, Dies Out Too, Sooner Or Later. Time Will Not Allow Himself To Be Cheated Of His Rights With The Monuments Of Men Or With Themselves.

It Is Better To Do The Smallest Thing In The World Than To Hold Half An Hour To Be Too Small A Thing.

The Moment One Definitely Commits Oneself, Then Providence Moves Too. Whatever You Think You Can Do, Or Believe You Can Do, Begin It. Action Has Magic, Power And Grace.