“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight,but they, while their companions slept,were toiling upward in the night.”

“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

“Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.”

“Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind usFootprints on the sands of time”

“The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.”

“Ye are better than all the balladsThat ever were sung or said;For ye are living poems,And all the rest are dead.”

“Ah! What would the world be to usIf the children were no more?We should dread the desert behind usWorse than the dark before.”