Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.