Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

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's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.