Success is dependant on effort.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.