A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is ….

Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not only of morality and the law….

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever..

We are often able because we think we are able..

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age..

You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something. " I cannot," never accomplished anythi….

Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently, is ….