No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.