That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

One must be something to be able to do something.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.