Luck whines; labor whistles.

Character is itself a fortune.

With will one can do anything.

Where there is a will there is a way.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

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

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.

Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

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

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

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

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

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

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

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

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

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