Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.

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

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.