Aims

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven.

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

Small projects need much more help than great ones

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin again

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

You can do things that I cannot do. I can do things that you cannot do. Together we can do great things

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher

There are only two tragedies in life. one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it

Nothing will come of nothing

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world