There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

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

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.