"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

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.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

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

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.