You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must. [Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.

Do you have a clear written purpose of your life? If not, why don't you make it now?

Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.