“The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also”

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness”

“There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others”

“Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life”

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win”

“As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.”