Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.