With will one can do anything.

No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

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

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.