"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."
"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."