“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

“No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.”

“Every man makes a god of his own desire”

“Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.”

“Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.”

“All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.”

“The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.”