He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.