Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.