Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.