No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.