“To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.”

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

“My soul is full of longingfor the secret of the sea,and the heart of the great oceansends a thrilling pulse through me.”

“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.”

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

“Perserverence 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.”

“Thus thought I, as by night I readOf the great army of the dead,The trenches cold and damp,The starved and frozen camp,--The wounded from the battle-plain,In dreary hospitals of pain,The cheerless corridors,The cold and stony floors.Lo! in that house of miseryA lady with a lamp I seePass through the glimmering gloomAnd flit from room to room.And slow, as in a dream of bliss,The speechless sufferer turns to kissHer shadow, as it fallsUpon the darkening walls.”