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

Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.