Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels…

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you someti…

'Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!'