"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

"If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it."

"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."

"Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual."

"I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself."

"'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poorest man's heart thru half the year."

"The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early."

"When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you."

"I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman."