“You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go”

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

“As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.”

“Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.”

“Experience teacheth usThat resolution 's a sole help at need:And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us,That we be bold in every enterprise:Then since there is no way, but fight or die,Be resolute, my lord, for victory.”

“All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.”

“For I am fresh of spirit, and resolvedTo meet all perils very constantly.”

“Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.”

“My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.”

“By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.”

“The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.”

“Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.”

“It's natural to sit down but the human spirit within us can make us get up.”

“No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.”

“O, the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!”

“The sweat of industry would dry and die,But for the end it works to.”

“Much rain wears the marble.”

“Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.”

“Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.”

“Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.”

“Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.”

“And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.”

“My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.”

“The let-alone lies not in your good will.”

“I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.”