Politeness Goes Far, Yet Costs Nothing.

Many Are The Lives Of Men Unwritten, Which Have Nevertheless As Powerfully Influenced Civilization And Progress As The More Fortunate Great Whose Names Are Recorded In Biography. Even The Humblest Person, Who Sets Before His Fellows An Example Of Industry, Sobriety, And Upright Honesty Of Purpose In Life, Has A Present As Well As A Future Influence Upon The Well-being Of His Country; For His Life And Character Pass Unconsciously Into The Lives Of Others, And Propagate Good Example For All Time To Come.

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.

No Laws, However Stringent, Can Make The Idle Industrious, The Thriftless Provident, Or The Drunken Sober. Such Reforms Can Only Be Effected By Means Of Individual Action, Economy And Self-denial; By Better Habits, Rather Than By Greater Rights.

Obedience, Submission, Discipline, Courage--these Are Among The Characteristics Which Make A Man.

The Wise Man... If He Would Live At Peace With Others, He Will Bear And Forbear.