When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.

I am prouder of my title 'The Children's Friend' than if I were to be called 'The King of the World'.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.