"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes." Seneca

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress." Frederick Douglass #quotes

"If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before." Mitchell Burgess

"The ends must justify the means." Matthew Prior

"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity." Samuel Johnson

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike