"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."

"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."

"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it."