Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.