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.

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

You must make your own opportunities.

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.