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

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

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

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action

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.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.