We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not survive the death of her children, has lived to bury her husband and the last one of a large family, and in addition to all this has seen her home and last dollar swept away; yet she has had the courage to bear it all and to go on as before. When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.