Failure is the true test of greatness

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.