Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

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.

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

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

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

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