Childhood May Do Without A Grand Purpose,

Patience, Persistence, And Power To Do Are Only Acquired By Work.

There Is A Contemptibly Quiet Path For All Those Who Are Afraid Of The Blows And Clamor Of Opposing Forces. There Is No Honorable Fighting For A Man Who Is Not Ready To Forget That He Has A Head To Be Battered And A Name To Be Bespattered. Truth Wants No Champion Who Is Not As Ready To Be Struck As To Strike For Her.

It Is Better To Be A Self-made Man,--filled Up According To God's Original Pattern,--than To Be Half A Man, Made After Some Other Man's Pattern.

Gossip Is Always A Personal Confession Either Of Malice Or Imbecility.

Labor Is The Instituted Means For The Methodical Development Of All Our Powers Under The Direction And Control Of The Will.