There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, read more

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

Every teacher has to learn the lession.

Every teacher has to learn the lession.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of read more

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor read more

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new read more

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.