Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

Do not read the newspapers.