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.

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

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