When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

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

No man fails who does his best.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.