The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

Manners are the ornament of action.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow