Character: The Grandest Thing In The World.

Success Is In The Student, Not In The University; Greatness Is In The Individual, Not In The Library; Power Is In The Man, Not In His Crutches. A Great Man Will Make Opportunities, Even Out Of The Commonest And Meanest Situations. If A Man Is Not Superior To His Education, Is Not Larger Than His Crutches Or His Helps, If He Is Not Greater Than The Means Of His Culture, Which Are But The Sign-boards Pointing The Way To Success, He Will Never Reach Greatness. Not Learning, Not Culture Alone, Not Helps And Opportunities, But Personal Power And Sterling Integrity, Make A Man Great.

Our Trials, Our Sorrows, And Our Grieves Develop Us.

The Man Who Has Not Learned The Secret Of Taking The Drudgery Out Of His Task By Flinging His Whole Soul Into It, Has Not Learned The First Principles Of Success Or Happiness.

Who Can Estimate The Real Wealth That Inheres In A Fine Character. . . . How Base And Mean Money And Huge Estates Look In Comparison. All Other Things Fade Before It. Its Touch Is Like Magic To Win Friendship, Influence, Power. Can You Afford To Chill, To Discourage, To Crush Out Of Your Life This Sweet, Sensitive Plant, Which Would Flower In Your Nature And Give Added Glory To Your Life, For The Sake Of A Few Dollars, A Little Questionable Fame?

It Is Certain That The Greatest Poets, Orators, Statesmen, And Historians, Men Of The Most Brilliant And Imposing Talents, Have Labored As Hard, If Not Harder, Than Day Laborers; And That The Most Obvious Reason Why They Have Been Superior To Other Men Is That They Have Taken More Pains Than Other Men.