Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.