Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life before their eyes, that perhaps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: 'Improve thyself.'