"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come."

"If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it."

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

"Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it."

"History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between."

"The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one."

"Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved."