Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.