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

Where there is a will there is a way.

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.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

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