Elbow grease is the best polish.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

Work is love made visible.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.