"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."
"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"