All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

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

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

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.

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

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