“My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!”

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle"

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way”

“Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

“Women, after all, gentlemen, are the great props and comforts of our existance"

“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

“Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage—strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its illusions, and what is there real in either to live or care for?”