If you have never failed you have never lived.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!