They never fail who die in a great cause.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is
an appalling waste of read more

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is
an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for
wallowing in.

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like read more

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to read more

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we
understand about life, ourselves, and the world read more

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we
understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he read more

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.