“ A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ”
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
~ James A. Garfield
It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
