"In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth."

"Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back onitself recoils."

"Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war."

"For neither Man nor Angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that every challenge is an invitation to grow stronger."

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."

"You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will always hurry back."

"It is a radiant truth that the spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence — an essential principle for the reflective life."