“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
“May your joys be as bright as the morning, your years of happiness as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and your troubles but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love
“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.