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.

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

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.

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

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

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.

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