Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life and often find ourselves without experience despite our years.

If you wish to succeed in life make perseverance your bosom friend experience your wise counselor caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation we shall find manifest examples of premeditation perseverance resolution and consumate artifice in order to effect their purpose.

I have said it on several occasions several times from this podium that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

In my home State of Louisiana several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita literally dozens across the entire State.

We are living in 1937 and our universities I suggest are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization education graduation for a century - for several centuries.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.