Self-control Is Only Courage Under Another Form.

Practical Wisdom Is Only To Be Learned In The School Of Experience. Precepts And Instruction Are Useful So Far As They Go, But, Without The Discipline Of Real Life, They Remain Of The Nature Of Theory Only.

The Romans Rightly Employed The Same Word (virtus) To Designate Courage, Which Is, In A Physical Sense, What The Other Is In A Moral; The Highest Virtue Of All Being Victory Over Ourselves.

The Very Greatest Things - Great Thoughts, Discoveries, Inventions - Have Usually Been Nurtured In Hardship, Often Pondered Over In Sorrow, And At Length Established With Difficulty.

The Great And Good Do No Die Even In This World. Embalmed In Books, Their Spirits Walk Abroad. The Book Is A Living Voice. It Is An Intellect To Which One Still Listens.

Energy Of Will May Be Defined To Be The Very Central Power Of Character In A Man.