Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.

You must make your own opportunities.