If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.

It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.

He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.