Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

Example has far more followers than reason.