"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."

"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."

"Fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."

"You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."

"He who seeks peace must remember that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."