Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.