The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

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

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.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.