The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

From labor there shall come forth rest.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.