My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.