The Very Greatest Things - Great Thoughts,

So Much Does The Moral Health Depend Upon The Moral Atmosphere That Is Breathed, And So Great Is The Influence Daily Exercised By Parents Over Their Children By Living A Life Before Their Eyes, That Perhaps The Best System Of Parental Instruction Might Be Summed Up In These Two Words: 'improve Thyself.'

The Tiniest Bits Of Opinion Sown In The Minds Of Children In Private Life Afterwards Issue Forth To The World, And Become Its Public Opinion; For Nations Are Gathered Out Of Nurseries.

Energy Enables A Man To Force His Way Through Irksome Drudgery And Dry Details And Caries Him Onward And Upward To Every Station In Life.

The Influence Of Woman Is The Same Everywhere. Her Condition Influences The Morals, Manners, And Character Of The People Of All Countries. Where She Is Debased, Society Is Debased; Where She Is Morally Pure And Enlightened, Society Will Be Proportionately Elevated.

Success Treads On The Heels Of Every Right Effort; And Though It Is Possible To Overestimate Success To The Extent Of Almost Deifying It, As Is Sometimes Done, Still In Any Worthy Pursuit It Is Meritorious.