Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.