A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.