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

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

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

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.