The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.