"Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution."

"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken."

"We rise in glory as we sink in pride."

"Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores."

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

"Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life"

"The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are."

"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."

"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."

"Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others."

"What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured."