Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.