Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

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

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

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

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

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