Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

To revive sorrow is cruel.

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.