Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.