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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
In every parting there is an image of death.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.