The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.