Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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.
Manners are the ornament of action.
With will one can do anything.
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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.