An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.