All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.

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.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

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

One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.