Cutting honest throats by whispers.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

Make your life a magical journey of Life, encountering Life.

Writing is not a numbers game. You should focus more on reaching the hearts of readers and building fans more than publishing a plethora of books that no one may care about.

The devil is the god of this planet and he does anything he wants to the people therein

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.

When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge.