Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.