“To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.”

“There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.”

“The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.”

“Nothing but courage can guide life.”

“He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.”

“If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.”

“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”

“Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.”

“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”