"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday."

"The first wealth is health."

"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it."

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."

"Making music should not be left to the professionals."

"SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own."

"DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from the French."