“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”

“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”

“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.”

“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”

“All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.”

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

“Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.”