Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.