Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

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.

Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.