“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand
“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
“The value of life ist not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health
“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius