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.

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.

You must make your own opportunities.

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.

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.

What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.