Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.