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

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.

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

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

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

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

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