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.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.