There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.

We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.