“Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it ”

“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner”

“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself”

“Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel”

“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world”

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life”