The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

Where there is a will there is a way.