Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

The prayer of Ajax was for light.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.