Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

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

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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