The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

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

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.