Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.