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war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master, that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes

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.

I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on.

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.

It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

My sensations as we approached what I supposed might be 'a field of battle' were anything but agreeable.

Struggle, work, fight as I would, I seemed to get nowhere and accomplish nothing.

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

Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing--a childless mother.

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

Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek,--the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedom to love and aspire.

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.

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.

Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.

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

If I felt that there is to be sole responsibility in the Executive for the America of tomorrow I should shrink from the burden.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul.

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.

High ideals, noble efforts will make seeming failures but trifles, they need not dishearten us; they should prove sources of new strength.

Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.

Life is not really what comes to us, but what we get from it.