Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.