Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man-in a word, it is the Man himself.

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

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.