A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.

We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

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.