youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.