Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.