“It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Loneliness breeds self-love.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

Today will end and another day will come – I can’t bend time into softer motions all I can do is live.

Life is like a game, there could be many players. If you don’t play with them, they’ll play with you.

Time is by my side I’m not running forward for time is not behind.

I loved you with all my heart turns out a whole for some is barely apart.

The ‘kind’ in mankind. Show me that.

Ripples in the water slowly fade away they make way for the larger waves that stay.