There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood. Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

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.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.