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.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Into each life some rain must fall.