It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

- William Mathews

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

- William Mathews

[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnan…

- William Mathews

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor …

- William Mathews

What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

- William Mathews

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

- William Mathews

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an …

- William Mathews

So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that so…

- William Mathews

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

- William Mathews