"The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before."

"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed."

"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."

"In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

"Grief is a species of idleness."

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

"Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success."

"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."

"Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness."

"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble."

"I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope -- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all."