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

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.