"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams."

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

"You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home."

"There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late."

"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."

"Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux."

"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."

"I only see clearly what I remember."

"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains."

"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."

"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."

"The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards."

"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."

"I may be no better, but at least I am different."

"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties"

"I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another"

"Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess"

"When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime"

"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."

"Gasoline consumption over the past 4 weeks has been 2.4 percent above prior-year levels, on average, suggesting momentum continues to build ahead of the summer driving seasons."

"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them"