“Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”

Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Action achieves more than words.

Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Death is the only water to wash away this dirt.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

No one who lives in error is free.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Old loves are dropped when new ones come.

Who then will dare to say I’m weak or timid? No, they’ll say I’m loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.

Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.

Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.