A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

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.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.