Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.