“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”

“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”

“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”

“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”

“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”

“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”

“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”

“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.”

“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”

“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.”

“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”

“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”