Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.