Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.