Energy Of Will May Be Defined To

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.

Enthusiasm..the Sustaining Power Of All Great Action

A Great Deal Of What Passes By The Name Of Patriotism In These Days Consists Of The Merest Bigotry And Narrow-mindedness; Exhibiting Itself In National Prejudice, National Conceit, And National Hatred. It Does Not Show Itself In Deeds, But In Boastings--in Howlings, Gesticulations, And Shrieking Helplessly For Help--in Flying Flags And Singing Songs--and In Perpetual Grinding At The Hurdy-gurdy Of Long-dead Grievances And Long-remedied Wrongs. To Be Infested By Such A Patriotism As This Is Perhaps Among The Greatest Curses That Can Befall Any Country.

Nothing Of Real Worth Can Be Obtained Without Courageous Working. Man Owes His Growth Chiefly To The Active Striving Of The Will, That Encounter With Difficulty Which He Calls Effort; And It Is Astonishing To Find How Often Results Apparently Impracticable Are Then Made Possible.

So Much Does The Moral Health Depend Upon The Moral Atmosphere That Is Breathed, And So Great Is The Influence Daily Exercised By Parents Over Their Children By Living A Life Before Their Eyes, That Perhaps The Best System Of Parental Instruction Might Be Summed Up In These Two Words: 'improve Thyself.'