There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

I did not fall into love - I rose into love.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Read to live, not live to read.

Master books, but do not let them master you.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.