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

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. And we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.

So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life before their eyes, that perhaps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: 'Improve thyself.'

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

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