“One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.”

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

Bad husbands will make bad wives.

You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Pray God, keep us simple.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

Everyone has their own time to get their fortune. Be happy for others while you wait for your time.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.

If I gained one thing from philosophy is that at the very least, I am well prepared to confront any change in fortune.

Some of us will touch the sky, others will cradle the moon and some will enter a whole new galaxy. What a fortune.

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

The memories and fortune I came back with are pure wisdom, a closer relationship with myself & my spirituality.