The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

Where there is a will there is a way.

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.