You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
Base men who prosper are unenviable.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
I know my own heart to be entirely English.