Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

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

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.