“Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.”

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Friendship? Yes Please.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas time.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

When you drink of the water, don’t forget the spring from which it flows.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Reflect upon your present blessings.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

You can’t fly unless you let yourself fall.

I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

The Lord waits for us to offer him our failings so that he can help us experience his mercy.

In many situations in life, all you have to be able to do is just one more.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.