You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.