Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.