"What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate." - Henry David Thoreau

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."
- Marquis de Condorcet

"Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed." - Lord Clarendon

"Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence--as a compliment from God." - Henry Ward Beecher

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." - John Bunyan

"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago." - Horace Mann

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master."
- Dominique Bouhours

"We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there." - Chateaubriand

"We go to the grave of a friend saying, 'A man is dead;' but angels throng about him, saying, 'A man is born.'" - Henry Ward Beecher

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
- James A. Garfield

"A good character is in all cases the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents, it is not created by external advantages, it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors."
- J. Hawes

"Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they are the very ones he needs." - Jean Paul Richter