Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

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

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

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.