Self-control Is Only Courage Under Another Form.

Whatever Is Done For Men Takes Away From The Stimulus And Necessity Of Doing Things For Themselves. The Value Of Legislative As An Agent In Human Advancement Has Been Much Over-estimated. No Laws, However Stringent, Can Make The Idle Industrious, The Thriftless Provident Or The Drunken Sober.

Commonplace Though It May Appear, This Doing Of One's Duty Embodies The Highest Ideal Of Life And Character. There May Be Nothing Heroic About It; But The Common Lot Of Men Is Not Heroic.

When Typhus Or Cholera Breaks Out, They Tell Us That Nobody Is To Blame. That Terrible Nobody! How Much He Has To Answer For. More Mischief Is Done By Nobody Than By All The World Besides.

Riches Are Oftener An Impediment Than A Stimulus To Action; And In Many Cases They Are Quite As Much A Misfortune As A Blessing.

Fortune Has Often Been Blamed For Her Blindness; But Fortune Is Not So Blind As Men Are. Those Who Look Into Practical Life Will Find That Fortune Is Usually On The Side Of The Industrious, As The Winds And Waves Are On The Side Of The Best Navigators.