The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

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.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.