"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."

"Imitation is suicide."

"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."

"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

"It is not the length of life, but the depth."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"The Artist always has the masters in his eyes."

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."

"When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying."

"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased."

"Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances."

"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."

"Life consists of what man is thinking about all day."

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."