"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 we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

"If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear."

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."