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

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

With will one can do anything.

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.