“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

To a young heart everything is fun.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.

Things do not change; we change.

Light up the darkness.

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.