“Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.”

“Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.”

“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”

“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.”

“Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.”

“The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.”

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

“It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.”

“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.”

“Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.”