Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.
Those that are little, little things suit.
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
