Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.