"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

"No man has ever become great without some divine inspiration."

"Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

"No one can be happy who has been thrust out of the way of truth and wanders about through a labyrinth of error."

"Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested."