“Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.”

“I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.”

“I wish to go on living even after my death.”

“Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.”

“There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.”

“Assume a virtue if you have it not.”

“Best men oft are moulded out of faults.”

“Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.”

“Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.”

“Conscience is a thousand swords.”

“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!”

“Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.”

“Motivation is like bathing. You've got to do it every single day.”

“Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.”

“To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.”

“I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.”

“Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.”

“Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”

“Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.”

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,And so your follies fight against yourself.Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;And fight and die is death destroying death,Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”

“Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.”

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.”