Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

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

Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.

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

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.