“Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another.”

“If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.”

“The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;”

“Reimagining your life. Usually when people get Towered, they try to rebuild what they had. It takes a lot of courage to imagine your life might be different.”

“It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry”

“It is the wretched way people have of setting up a claim to happiness that ruins everything in this world. A man will make progress if he can get rid of this claim and desire nothing but what he sees before him .”