“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits”

“There would be no great men if there were no little ones ”

“One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them”

“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted”

“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done”

“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. ”