“Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.”

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,–the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

His saying was: live and let live.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Not he who scorns the Saviour’s yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that’s true, He whom woman’s love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar’s garb, commands respect.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Only person I’m scared of fighting is Paris Hilton.

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner.

Do not fight the person. Fight the problem.

Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

My goal is to continue to learn, grow, and elevate my competition with every fight.