I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

• Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
• Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
• Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
• Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
• I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.