Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.