"The true measure of a man is the greatest battles are fought within."

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"

"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."

"It is a subtle truth that a steadfast commander remains calm when the storm rages fiercest."

"What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money."

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

"I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'"

"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route."