“If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else. ”

“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life ”

“In order to write about life, first you must live it.”

“Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life”

“We are what we repeatedly do”

“The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour”