No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.