Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.