The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.

The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your personal character.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.