Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

If the race is good, so is the place.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.