Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.