Have the courage to act instead of react.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.