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.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

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.

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.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow