The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.