Work Is One Of The Best Educators

The Most Influential Of All The Virtues Are Those Which Are The Most In Request For Daily Use. They Wear The Best, And Last The Longest.

The Knowledge And Experience Which Produce Wisdom Can Only Become A Man's Individual Possession And Property By His Own Free Action; And It Is As Futile To Expect These Without Laborious, Painstaking Effort, As It Is To Hope To Gather A Harvest Where The Seed Has Not Been Sown.

It Is A Mistake To Suppose That Men Succeed Through Success; They Much Oftener Succeed Through Failures. Precept, Study, Advice, And Example Could Never Have Taught Them So Well As Failure Has Done.

Genius, Without Work, Is Certainly A Dumb Oracle, And It Is Unquestionably True That The Men Of The Highest Genius Have Invariably Been Found To Be Amongst The Most Plodding, Hard-working, And Intent Men -- Their Chief Characteristic Apparently Consisting Simply In Their Power Of Laboring More Intensely And Effectively Than Others.

Luck Lies In Bed, And Wishes The Postman Would Bring Him News Of A Legacy; Labor Turns Out At Six, And With Busy Pen Or Ringing Hammer Lays The Foundation Of A Competence.