It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.