We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.