"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."

"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else."

"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."

"Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others."

"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality."

"The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature."

"If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."

"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars."

"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it."

"The fact speak for themselves."

"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few."

"I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble."