Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one