I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.