It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.