Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.