"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."

"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."

"A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating."

"UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian."

"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission."

"I鈥檒l fight when needed, revel when there鈥檚 an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes鈥?but I won鈥檛 let anyone use me against my will."

"The gods help them that help themselves."

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."

"The problem isn't easy access to guns, but easy access to oxygen. Certain people shouldn't be breathing."