Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.