Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.