There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.

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

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

There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.

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

Some blessings have been ours in the past, and these may be repeated or even multiplied.

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.