The United States is a warning rather than an example to the world.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.