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

The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.

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.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

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.