Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Moments of prayer intruded on by sloth cannot be made up. We may get experience, but we cannot get back the rich freshness and strength which were wrapped up in those moments.
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
On earth we have nothing to do with success or results but only with being true to God and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.
Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.