Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down...

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.