"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action."

"You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."

"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."

"The spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 103 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 92."

"It is a enduring truth that do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold — an essential principle for the reflective life."