"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."

"No pressure, no diamonds."

"Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness."

"The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough."

"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."

"We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God."

"Silence is more eloquent than words."

"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."

"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government."

"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."

"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."

"The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison."

"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."