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.

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.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.