Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

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 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.

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

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.