The reason why men fail is, in five cases out of six, not through want of influence or brains, or opportunity, or good guidance, but because they are slack;

OF all work producing results, nine-tenths must be drudgery.   There is no work, from the highest to the lowest, which can be done well by any man who is unwilling to make that sacrifice. 

Every time we pray, or study, or work, we are receiving to give away.

Order is man’s greatest need and his true well-being.

Confusion is the enemy of all comfort, and confusion is born of procrastination.

To secure a great end, one must be willing to pay a great price.

Here, as everywhere in the field of man’s life, there enters that element of sacrifice without which no real achievement is possible.

Life is so short and time so fleeting that much which one would wish to do must fain be omitted.   He is fortunate who perceives at a glance what it will do, and what it will not do, to omit.

He is always in such headlong haste to overtake the next minute, that he loses half the minute in hand;  and yet is full of indignation and impatience at other people’s slowness