Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as an agent in human advancement has been much over-estimated. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident or the drunken sober.