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.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

No man fails who does his best.

There is no medicine like hope.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.