"Concentration alone conquers."

"Silence is the severest criticism."

"How strangely easy difficult things are!"

"Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows."

"To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them."

"The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other …"

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."

"Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn."

"All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better."

"One of the finest sayings in the language is John Foster's "Live mightily.""