Man Cannot Aspire If He Looked Down;

It Is A Mistake To Suppose That Men Succeed Through Success; They Much Oftener Succeed Through Failures. Precept, Study, Advice, And Example Could Never Have Taught Them So Well As Failure Has Done.

The Battle Of Life Is, In Most Cases, Fought Uphill; And To Win It Without A Struggle Were Perhaps To Win It Without Honor. If There Were No Difficulties There Would Be No Success; If There Were Nothing To Struggle For, There Would Be Nothing To Be Achieved.

Though An Inheritance Of Acres May Be Bequeathed, An Inheritance Of Knowledge And Wisdom Cannot. The Wealthy Man May Pay Others For Doing His Work For Him; But It Is Impossible To Get His Thinking Done For Him By Another, Or To Purchase Any Kind Of Self-culture.

The Duty Of Helping One's Self In The Highest Sense Involves The Helping Of One's Neighbors.

Genius, Without Work, Is Certainly A Dumb Oracle, And It Is Unquestionably True That The Men Of The Highest Genius Have Invariably Been Found To Be Amongst The Most Plodding, Hard-working, And Intent Men -- Their Chief Characteristic Apparently Consisting Simply In Their Power Of Laboring More Intensely And Effectively Than Others.