“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained
“We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some
“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good
“We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself