It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

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

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

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.