A moderately informed man standing firmly on his two good legs is a much superior man to the wise professor who is unable to leave his bed.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise high with the occasion.—Abraham Lincoln.
“What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” And what does it profit him if he shall become a multi-millionaire and lose his health of mind or body?
Success that costs more than it is worth is failure.
If you want to be missed by your friends, be useful.—Robert E. Lee.
Make haste slowly. Be ambitious but not foolish.
Learn a few things and learn them well. He who grasps much holds little. Upon investigating the fund of information possessed by a great many young persons it has been found that the matter with it is the “smatter.”
Herbert Spencer says the brains of precocious children cease to develop after a certain age, like a plant that fails to flower.
The man of grit carries in his presence a power which spares him the necessity of resenting insult.—Whipple.