When hope is lost, it is lost where it used to be; if you want it again, for greater chance you have to seek somewhere else. If you are crossed in love, love another one; if you pursue but never have, shift your target.

The prerequisite of being a strong man is not dreading that one will never be strong throughout all his life of toils and pains.

The most fearful thing in this world is not that others are running ahead of you, but that you can't accelerate yourself. To say more fearfully, you have been working so hard only to find there follow one and another steps backward. 

What embodies the ability of a writer is all that belong to himself which he writes. One of the qualities of an eminent writer lies in it that he unlikely attempts anything outside him and which he hasn't grasped, no matter how common it is for the rest.

To be much more intelligent we have to take action which, since we have books or advice from the else, is not the only reference but the most convincing and unforgettable.

Dignity is plain in its best existence, when it of wild ambition is aggressive, of vain glory will get a swelled head, or else take a beating, and of luxury has to be difficultly maintained.

There is not a shortest way to a goal, nor a most convenient effort to achieve a monument, which many people consume wits to go after.

A man should religiously secure in mind what is truly for him to do, and only afterwards could he take action; or else he does the wrong things which only lead him to the repentance before death.

If I do not give up, I will keep the strength which is medium though far from superlative; but if I don’t strive, I will end up with nothing in my capacity.