“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”

“One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”

“College isn’t the place to go for ideas.”

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

“Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”

“Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.”

“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”

“The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.”

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”

“My friends have made the story of my life.”

“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”

“I think the degree of a nation’s civilization may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.”

“When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within–a spirit of growth and beauty.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

“So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.”

“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.”

“I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one’s life, the foundation of happiness or misery.”

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with a few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” – George Washington

“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”

“The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.”

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.”

“Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.”

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective ways of preserving peace.”

“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.”

“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.”

“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

“Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.”

“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.”

“Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.”

“Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.”

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the week, and esteem to all.” – George Washington

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the week, and esteem to all.” – George Washington

“Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.”

“Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”

“War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.”

“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”