Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

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.

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.

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.