Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

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

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.