“Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.”

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Have the courage to be afraid, because fear is a sign that you care deeply. If you care deeply enough, you will be brave enough.

The white pure sheet of her life had thunderous and royal purple lavendar pride with a golden heart.

So keep rowing against the current, no one ever made an epic voyage through smooth sailing.

She is a woman, bold and courageous and a goddess.

She is a woman with courage flowing in her veins that shield the loved ones with all her might.

Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.