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

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.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

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

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.