The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Character is itself a fortune.

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.