Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.