We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Every man has his secret sorrows.

The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.