“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”

“Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

“He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!”

“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”

“How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.”

“He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.”