"True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."

"It is a quiet truth that do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon."

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

"It is a profound truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a unyielding truth that we do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments."