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.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.