For visions come not to polluted eyes.
My friends are my estate.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.