We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

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

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

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.