Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all–the apathy of human beings.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.