It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

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

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Courage provides you with two qualities

No matter how different we are on the outside, the love we have within us is the same.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.