Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
We judge ourselves by what we feel we a capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have allready done.
The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.