Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached himself this sermon, declared to himself that they who attempted more than this flew too high in the clouds to be of service to men an women upon the earth

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.