"Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome...." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.”

“Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.”

“Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.”

“Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again, it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening, reminiscences of our sanest hours. The voice of nature is always encouraging.”

“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.”

“The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.”

“Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.”

“The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.”

“Even in the most difficult situation there is always, somehow, a way to triumph”