All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.