When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.