"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly."

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly."

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."