"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

"Strength is the outcome of need."

"It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary."

"Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently."

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

"As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!"

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."

"Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him."