Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Where there is a will there is a way.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.