Manners are the ornament of action.
Self-control is only courage under another form.
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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.
True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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.
Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
The egotist is next door to a fanatic.
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.
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.