“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”

“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday”

“The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.”

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

“We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself”

“There are two levers to set a man in motion, fear and self-interest”