Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.

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.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.