The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.