Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!