Difficulties, By Bracing The Mind To Overcome

Ambitious Princes Value Inherited Kingdoms Not So Much As Conquered Provinces.

A Strong Will Deals With The Hard Facts Of Life As A Sculptor With His Marbles, Making Them Facile And Yielding To His Purposes, And Conquering Their Stubbornness By A Greater Stubbornness In Himself.

How Like A Railway Tunnel Is The Poor Man's Life, With The Light Of Childhood At One End, The Intermediate Gloom, And Only The Glimmer Of A Future Life At The Other Extremity!

In One Important Respect A Man Is Fortunate In Being Poor. His Responsibility To God Is So Much The Less

Courage Enlarges, Cowardice Diminishes Resources.