The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Where there is a will there is a way.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

Manners are the ornament of action.