We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.