Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

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.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?