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

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.