Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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