Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.