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.

With will one can do anything.

Where there is a will there is a way.

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.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

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.