It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.