Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.