Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.