It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.