It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it 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.

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.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .