The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.