Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.
Calculation never made a hero.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.
To live is to change and to be perfect is to change often.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.
It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing.
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
If we are intended for great ends we are called to great hazards.
And this is the sense of the word grammar which our inaccurate student detests, and this is the sense of the word which every sensible tutor will maintain. His maxim is a little, but well; that is, re...