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

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

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

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

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action