“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden ...” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”

“The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.”

“The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.”

“Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.”

“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.”

“In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.”