"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."
"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."
"His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong"