Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

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

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.

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.