A mother's pride, a father's joy.

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

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.