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-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

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.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

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.