Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

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.

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

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.