"Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself..." — 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.

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.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.