The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.

Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.