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 reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

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

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow