The Highest Culture Is Not Obtained From

It Is Not Ease, But Effort-not Facility, But Difficulty, Makes Men. There Is, Perhaps, No Station In Life In Which Difficulties Have Not To Be Encountered And Overcome Before Any Decided Measure Of Success Can Be Achieved.

It Is Energy - The Central Element Of Which Is Will - That Produces The Miracle That Is Enthusiasm In All Ages. Everywhere It Is What Is Called Force Of Character And The Sustaining Power Of All Great Action

Necessity, Oftener Than Facility, Has Been The Mother Of Invention; And The Most Prolific School Of All Has Been The School Of Difficulty.

National Progress Is The Sum Of Individual Industry, Energy, And Uprightness, As National Decay Is Of Individual Idleness, Selfishness, And Vice.

All Life Is A Struggle.... Under Competition The Lazy Man Is Put Under The Necessity Of Exerting Himself; And If He Will Not Exert Himself, He Must Fall Behind. If He Do Not Work, Neither Shall He Eat.