The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action

Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

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

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.