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

“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”

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday”

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

“The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also”