Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

I love learning, but hate being taught.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.