Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.