“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”

“His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;Our valors are our best gods.”

“Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”

“A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will come out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping, we are becoming.”

“Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness”

“We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.”

“The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.”