For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Look back, and smile on perils past.