A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.