History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.
To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.
With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world
The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.
Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.
The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.