Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

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

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

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.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.