The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate read more

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art read more

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally read more

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as read more

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.

I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.