Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.