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

- Josiah Johnson Hawes

We are often able because we think we are able.

- Josiah Johnson Hawes

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 …

- Josiah Johnson Hawes

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

- Josiah Johnson Hawes

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…

- Josiah Johnson Hawes

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…

- Josiah Johnson Hawes

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 …

- Josiah Johnson Hawes