In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.