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The road to success may be steep to climb, and it puts to the proof the energies of him who would reach the summit.

hope, which is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Do not, I beg you, dread those things which the immortal gods apply to our minds like spurs: misfortune is virtue's opportunity.

Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.

Misfortunes press hardest on those who are unacquainted with them: the yoke feels heavy to the tender neck.

How many casualties and difficulties are there that we dread as insupportable mischiefs, which, upon farther thoughts, we find to be mercies and benefits?

In time, the most stubborn grief will leave us, if in prudence we do not leave that first.

Life is a navigation; we are perpetually wallowing and dashing one against another; sometimes we suffer shipwreck, but we are always in danger and in expectation of it.

Oh! the delights of rest when a man comes to be weary, and of meat when he is heartily hungry.

Providence treats us like a generous father, and brings us up to labors, toils, and dangers; whereas the indulgence of a fond mother makes us weak and spiritless.

By flight alone we cannot overcome, but by endurance and true humility we are made stronger than all our enemies.

If thou bear it unwillingly, thou makest a burden for thyself and greatly increaseth thy load, and yet thou must bear it.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.

One temptation or sorrow passeth, and another cometh; and always we shall have somewhat to suffer

This it must be; and there is no means of escaping from tribulation and sorrow, except to bear them patiently.

From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety.

I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

The Day of Miracles was past, and a long, gray road of dogged work lay ahead.

Why may I not rest me from this restlessness and sleep from this wide waking?

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry.

A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

But what, to our eyes, may seem hopeless failure is often but the dawning of a greater success.

Failure is often the rock-bottom foundation of real success.

Failure is often the turning-point, the pivot of circumstance that swings us to higher levels.