Man Cannot Aspire If He

Politeness Goes Far, Yet Costs Nothing.

There Are Many Persons Of Whom It May Be Said That They Have No Other Possession In The World But Their Character, And Yet They Stand As Firmly Upon It As Any Crowned King.

What We Are Accustomed To Decry As Great Social Evils, Will, For The Most Part, Be Found To Be Only The Out-growth Of Our Own Perverted Life; And Though We May Endeavor To Cut Them Down And Extirpate Them By Means Of Law, They Will Only Spring Up Again With Fresh Luxuriance In Some Other Form, Unless The Conditions Of Human Life And Character Are Radically Improved.

Alexander The Great Valued Learning So Highly, That He Used To Say He Was More Indebted To Aristotle For Giving Him Knowledge Than To His Father Philip For Life.

For Want Of Self-restraint Many Men Are Engaged All Their Lives In Fighting With Difficulties Of Their Own Making, And Rendering Success Impossible By Their Own Cross-grained Ungentleness; Whilst Others, It May Be Much Less Gifted, Make Their Way And Achieve Success By Simple Patience, Equanimity, And Self-control.