True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

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

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.