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

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

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.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

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

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.