The Noble People Will Be Nobly Ruled,

Success Treads On The Heels Of Every Right Effort; And Though It Is Possible To Overestimate Success To The Extent Of Almost Deifying It, As Is Sometimes Done, Still In Any Worthy Pursuit It Is Meritorious.

Alexander The Great Valued Learning So Highly, That He Used To Say He Was More Indebted To Aristotle For Giving Him Knowledge Than To His Father Philip For Life.

Life Is Of Little Value Unless It Be Consecrated By Duty.

I See Nothing Quite Conclusive In The Art Of Temporal Government, But Violence, Duplicity And Frequent Malversation. King Rules Or Barons Rule: The Strong Man Strongly And The Weak Man By Caprice. They Have But One Law, To Seize The Power And Keep It.

The Path Of Success In Business Is Invariably The Path Of Common-sense. Nothwithstanding All That Is Said About "lucky Hits," The Best Kind Of Success In Every Man's Life Is Not That Which Comes By Accident. The Only "good Time Coming" We Are Justified In Hoping For Is That Which We Are Capable Of Making For Ourselves.