Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

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.