No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.