Aims

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin again

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.