“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”

“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”

“Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.”

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”

“When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something… I don't know… even an earring”

“Inability to cooperate with others. More people lose their positions and their big opportunities in life, because of this fault, than for all other reasons combined.”

“Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.”

“Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”

“We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.”

“There is no reason why poverty should call us away from philosophy—no, nor even actual want. For when hastening after wisdom, we must endure even hunger. Men have endured hunger when their towns were besieged, and what other reward for their endurance did they obtain than that they did not fall under the conqueror’s power? How much greater is the promise of the prize of everlasting liberty, and the assurance that we need fear neither God nor man! Even though we starve, we must reach that goal.”