The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

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.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

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.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.