The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

Hope is only the love of life.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.