Character: the grandest thing in the world.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.