Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.