“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or senator, and remain fit for anything else”

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes”

“God cannot alter the past, though historians can ”

“When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations”

“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress”