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

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

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

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

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

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.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.