“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours
“My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness
“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something
“We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself
“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained