Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.