David Crockett's homely motto gives the formula for all high success in life." "Yes; he spoke wisely.

There would be few drones in our hive, if all acted up to his precept." "Few, indeed.

Oh! I get out of all patience sometimes with men in business; they act with such feebleness of nerve--such indecision of purpose.

They seem to have no life--none of those clear intuitions that spring from an ardent desire to reach a clearly-seen goal.
Without earnestness and concentration, nothing of more than ordinary importance is ever effected.

Until a man taxes every faculty of his mind to the utmost, he cannot know the power that is in him." "Truly said.