The world makes way for the man with an idea.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

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

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.