I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.