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

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

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

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.