Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

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

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.

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.

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

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