There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.