Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.