“True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.”

“How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?”

“How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?”

“Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”