Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.