John NealThinkers

The American is that singular people who know a little, and but a little, of everything.

Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance, and he that cannot abide the storm, without flinching or quailing strips himself in the sunshine, and lies down by the wayside, to be overlooked and forgotten.

Opposition is what we want and must have, to be good for anything. Hardship is the native soil of maabood and self-reliance.