It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
