A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.