Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.