When all else is lost, the future still remains.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Our first and last love is self-love.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.