Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading towardone inevitable conclusion

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.

There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.