Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.

We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they are.

The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.

Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast," and is as necessary to life as the act of breathing.