No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.

Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

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

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

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.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.