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

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

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 egotist is next door to a fanatic.

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.