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

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.