Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.