Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.