Where There Is A Will

Imitation Is For The Most Part So Unconscious That Its Effects Are Almost Unheeded, But Its Influence Is Not The Less Permanent On That Account. It Is Only When An Impressive Nature Is Placed In Contact With An Impressionable One That The Alteration In The Character Becomes Recognizable. Yet Even The Weakest Natures Exercise Some Influence Upon Those About Them. The Approximation Of Feeling, Thought, And Habit Is Constant, And The Action Of Example Unceasing.

Necessity Is Always The First Stimulus To Industry, And Those Who Conduct It With Prudence, Perseverance And Energy Will Rarely Fail. Viewed In This Light, The Necessity Of Labor Is Not A Chastisement, But A Blessing,--the Very Root And Spring Of All That We Call Progress In Individuals And Civilization In Nations.

An Intense Anticipation Itself Transforms Possibility Into Reality; Our Desires Being Often But Precursors Of The Things Which We Are Capable Of Performing.

The Highest Culture Is Not Obtained From The Teacher When At School Or College, So Much As By Our Ever Diligent Self-education When We Become Men.

Character Is Itself A Fortune.