An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.