To Expect An Impossibility Is Madness.

Remember This - That There Is A Proper Dignity And Proportion To Be Observed In The Performance Of Every Act Of Life.

Be Content With What You Are, And Wish Not Change; Nor Dread Your Last Day, Nor Long For It.

From My Grandfather's Father, I Learned To Dispense With Attendance At Public Schools, And To Enjoy Good Teachers At Home, And To Recognize That On Such Things Money Should Be Eagerly Spent.

The Controlling Intelligence Understands Its Own Nature, And What It Does, And Whereon It Works.

Short Is The Little Which Remains To Thee Of Life. Live As On A Mountain.