Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

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.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

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 Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.