Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

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

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.