Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
Opposition strengthens the manly will.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.
Labor humanizes, exalts.
Every sin provokes its punishment.