Necessity does everything well.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.