All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.