Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.