If you want learning, you must work for it.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.