Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

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.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.