Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.