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.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

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

The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

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.

Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as an agent in human advancement has been much over-estimated. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident or the drunken sober.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.