Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.