“Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.”

“Failure is the path of lease persistence.”

“I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake, for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”

“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”