It makes us, or it mars us.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

In all Chaos there is a Cosmos, In all Disorder a secret Order.

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

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.