Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.