You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

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

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

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.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.