"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."

"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

"It is a radiant truth that he who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."

"The doer alone learneth."

"A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode."