"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."

"Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life"

"We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not."

"The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right."

"The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."

"You only live life once; but if you live it right, once is enough."

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm."

"Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances."

"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"