The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

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

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.

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

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life before their eyes, that perhaps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: 'Improve thyself.'