It is not the big farmers who reap all the harvest.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.