Help From Without Is Often Enfeebling In

Biographies Of Great, But Especially Of Good Men Are Most Instructive And Useful As Helps, Guides, And Incentives To Others. Some Of The Best Are Almost Equivalent To Gospels,--teaching High Living ,high Thinking, And Energetic Action, For Their Own And, The World's Good.

Character Is Undergoing Constant Change, For Better Or For Worse--either Being Elevated On The One Hand, Or Degraded On The Other.

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.

A Woman's Best Qualities Do Not Reside In Her Intellect, But In Her Affections. She Gives Refreshment By Her Sympathies, Rather Than By Her Knowledge.

National Progress Is The Sum Of Individual Industry, Energy, And Uprightness, As National Decay Is Of Individual Idleness, Selfishness, And Vice.