Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.