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

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.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

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.