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Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.

Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core.

When he undertakes to play a part on the stage, and to persuade the world to think more about him than they do about themselves, he is got into a track where he will find nothing but briars and thorns, vexation and disappointment.

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

The spectacle of effort is what awakens and sustains our own effort.

Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.

On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been.

Unable to perceive a single chance of regaining their equality, they give up to despair, and allow themselves to fall below the dignity of human nature.

At first sight there is something surprising in this strange unrest of so many happy men, restless in the midst of abundance.

There is no royal road to the control of the brain.

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

The Government can not successfully insure prosperity or fix prices by legislative fiat.

In that category before anything else comes old age, to which all wish to attain, and at which all grumble when attained.

At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint beam of hope, that flickered for a moment, and then vanished.

We have more will than wallet; but will is what we need.

Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.

There is no short road to the realization of these aspirations.

The press and even the pulpit, in the main either by silence or open apology, have condoned and encouraged this state of anarchy.

Melancholy is the condition of that people whose government can be sustained only by a system which periodically transfers large amounts from the labor of the many to the coffers of the few.

She is besotted with innocent little ambitions, and does not understand this apparent waste of herself, this elaborate preparation, if no work is provided for her.

Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

The endorsement of that position by the majority of this Court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land.

To admit that this picture has its shades is but to say that it is still the condition of men upon earth.

At first I hoped that the cloud would pass away of itself; but it did not.