We profit little by books we do not enjoy.

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

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

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

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

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

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