There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.