Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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.