Manners Are The Ornament Of Action.

Although Genius Always Commands Admiration, Character Most Secures Respect. The Former Is More The Product Of The Brain, The Latter Of Heart-power; And In The Long Run It Is The Heart That Rules In Life.

Energy Of Will May Be Defined To Be The Very Central Power Of Character In A Man.

The Greatest Slave Is Not He Who Is Ruled By A Despot, Great Though That Evil Be, But He Who Is In The Thrall Of His Own Moral Ignorance, Selfishness, And Vice.

Even Happiness Itself May Become Habitual. There Is A Habit Of Looking At The Bright Side Of Things, And Also Of Looking At The Dark Side. Dr. Johnson Has Said That The Habit Of Looking At The Best Side Of A Thing Is Worth More To A Man Than A Thousand Pounds A Year. And We Possess The Power, To A Great Extent, Of So Exercising The Will As To Direct The Thoughts Upon Objects Calculated To Yield Happiness And Improvement Rather Than Their Opposites.

We Learn Wisdom From Failure Much More Than From Success. We Often Discover What Will Do, By Finding Out What Will Not Do; And Probably He Who Never Made A Mistake Never Made A Discovery.