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

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

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

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.