Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

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.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

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