Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.