The future is a convenient place for dreams

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

(From an introductory speech at a session of the Académie Française, December 24, 1896)

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent to me