“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ”

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

“If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve”

“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be”

“He travels the fastest who travels alone”

“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels”