Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.