Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

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

The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves.

All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.

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

Where there is a will there is a way.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.