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.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

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

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.