“In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.”

“That all any of us has to give is our best. if we do that. we succeed, no matter what the outcome.”

“When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.”

“He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of though snap off in the brain.”

“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”

“Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.”