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

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

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

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.

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.