Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

We are all wise for other people, none for himself.