Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

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.

The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.

Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

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

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.