“The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.”

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Nothing is hidden under the sun.