If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
Oh give us the man who sings at his work.
A man willing to work and unable to find work is perhaps the saddest sight...
Reform is not pleasant but grievous no person can reform themselves without...
Every noble work is at first impossible.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by...
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth is there a more horrid kind of...
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Silence is as deep as eternity speech a shallow as time.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have...
This world after all our science and sciences is still a miracle wonderful...
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness and its power of endurance - the...
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings...
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being...
To reform a world to reform a nation no wise man will undertake and all but...
Men do less than they ought unless they do all that they can.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing you had better get him to talk about...
Men seldom or rather never for a length of time and deliberately rebel...
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...
Man is properly speaking based upon hope he has no other possession but...
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
A strong mind always hopes and has always cause to hope.
History a distillation of rumour.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about...
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in...
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have...
