There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.