Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.