Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.