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

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

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