“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.”

“Now comes the mystery! (last words)”

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”

“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart”

“There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.”

“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”