As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.