"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."

"To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

"We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."

"The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion."

"The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about."

"It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie."

"The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity."

"If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."