In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.