“Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing…” — Samuel Smiles

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.