Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

The love received is the love that is saved.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

It's the ones without scars - those are the people you have to watch out for.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.