Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.