"The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it..." — Samuel Smiles

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.

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