“The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.”

“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.”

“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”

“You may thresh a hundred thousand bushels of grain, / But more than mine your belly will not contain.”

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

“A picture is a poem without words.”

“Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.”