Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

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.

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.